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About Naomi

I came to Australia with my mother and sister Vanda in 1966 from the UK aboard the Sitmar liner Castel Felice. We settled in South Australia I lived in the western suburbs of Adelaide for most of my life. I became very interested in retro items in my twenties. It was always a dream of mine to have an old house and fill it with retro items. I have done it twice now. My main interest is collecting old things. They do not have to be valuable, only interesting. There is something reassuring about old retro items. I have all sorts of things including doll related items. My other interests are my beautiful pets, art and going for drives to who knows where. I also enjoy board games or doing a scenic jig saw puzzle on a wintry afternoon by the fire. My goal is to travel a bit more as there are some places I would love to see

About Vanda

Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008.
We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and a "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.

Recent Posts From : Our Other Blog: Two Sisters and Two Points of View

Last Friday evening we had our town Christmas Parade which was put on by the local fire brigade and participated in by local schools, clubs and businesses. We were lucky with the weather, the skies were black but it didn’t rain. I was in town quite a while before the parade began so I took […]

The Tasman Bridge Disaster Hobart’s eastern and western shores are spanned by the Tasman Bridge which was completed in 1964. This bridge replaced an earlier floating bridge that had been built in 1943. I was not living in Tasmania in 1975 when the bridge collapsed but of course, I saw it on the news. It […]

Sharing My World This Week What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant? Mistletoe. Name something about this holiday season (whatever version you may celebrate) that most people like, but you dislike? Hmm tricky as I like most things about Christmas and the ones I dislike, such as rampant commercialism, most people dislike. […]

Rocks and Stones I have more phone photos today because although I went out with my camera on Friday it turns out that almost everything in Geeveston is made of wood! Hobart So here are some sandstone bricks I photographed in Hobart, many of the old buildings date from the 1820s and the bricks were […]